Trump Reacts To Hurricane Irma: 'No Rest For The Weary!'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By MATT SHUHAM Published SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 10:06 AM

President Donald Trump exclaimed at the size of Hurricane Irma Wednesday morning, remarking on Twitter that there was “No rest for the weary!” for federal disaster workers.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

On Tuesday, Trump declared states of emergency in Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, freeing up federal resources for disaster relief efforts.

Hurricane Harvey battered Houston with its most extreme rain event in history roughly two weeks before Irma’s potential landfall in Florida this weekend. The storm is currently battering the Caribbean.

Though Trump called Irma the “largest ever recorded in the Atlantic,” some meteorologists have actually referred to it as the strongest such storm. Its winds have reached 185 mph, according to several reports. Hurricane Sandy in 2012 was 1,000 miles in diameter, larger than Irma.

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[sandensea]

1. I'll say.

All that, plus your third world-style corruption and misgovernance to put up with.

[barbtries]

2. then he's going to Dakota to talk tax cuts.

is it a campaign rally or what?

[Bleacher Creature]

3. Everything is always about him.

I'm sorry that he's "wearty," but he could at least pretend to care about people in Irma's path.

[Kleveland]

4. I was raised with a similar, though different phrase:

".....the most familiar of which is the ancient Germanic proverb: "No rest for the wicked." "

Which certainly seems more appropriate, since he is the one of the most wicked assholes since Hitler!

There will be no rest for his ass in Hell, pitchforks is what I imagine poking his bloated and rightfully bald-headed body.

Just a weary imagining, so tired of him.... so, so tired.... of him polluting my declining years with his blatant evil.

[Igel]

36. Or the Coverdale Bible. n/t

[spiderpig]

5. He does love his exclamation points.

Here are a few extra - you clueless, insensitive dumbass:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PatSeg]

7. He lives for superlatives

Everything must be the largest, best, worst, greatest, etc. He will probably brag that his presidency saw the most powerful hurricane in history. Unlike his crowd sizes, this one will be true.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Just like

Elaine -

[LudwigPastorius]

6. "Hurricane looks like largest ever recorded in the Atlantic!"

What a sociopath.

I can only imagine if Trump had been around during other points in history.

"The Holocaust was the largest genocide ever!"

"The Great Chinese Famine had the most victims ever!"

"Trail of Tears: One of the deadliest forced relocations ever!"

[PatSeg]

10. His obsession with size

is very disturbing and unnatural, even for an insecure male. Everything in his life has revolved around the "biggest", "best", "greatest", "most successful", "richest", etc. He is like a comic book character.

[Juliusseizure]

21. Unlimited need to have all attention

focused on him ALL THE TIME.

Probably another reason he likes to drop bombs on Fridays.

Even negative attention is better than none. I think that's called high spectrum narcissism and it's nauseating.

I can't imagine how his mother coped. I know they kicked his ass out the house by age 12.

[PatSeg]

25. I've known people like that,

but not nearly as extreme as Trump. Everything about him is a gross exaggeration. And yes, even negative attention is better than none and he can use it to become a victim, because the world is so "unfair" to him. It is still hard to believe he is a real person.

[Juliusseizure]

33. Right he's WAY WAY of the charts and eerily so

I've also known a person or two like that, but as you said, he is such an extreme example. WAY WAY off the scales.

I know he became president for the attention and fame. The deal with Russia and profit making was a lesser priority. He's been talking about becoming president since at least 1987 - but was probably born wanting it.

I knew he was severely ill 20 years ago when I kept seeing him all over the TV and wondered WTF is a real estate developer doing on Hardball/Oprah/SNL, every TV he could get on.

But well before that, he somehow has photos taken and/or associations with almost every major super-celebrity and president- from Jimmy Carter to Michael Jackson to (insert super famous name).

Do an experiment - google search Trump and (very famous name) and you'll inevitably find a photo or association.

BTW-on the shows, he's not discussing real estate, he's discussing himself and throwing out attention seeking meat. On Howard Stern, talking about his daughter's body. Etc. Always in my mind - who is he, why is he on the show, and why is the host giving him this TV time? Nobody else is questioning it, so he's doing an amazing job of entertaining people and holding their interest.

And unlike the people I know, I can't just shut him off without being completely uninformed, with the risk that brings, because he MUST hog every news story, and gets upset without 24/7 coverage and a huge spotlight on him every second of every day.

That's why I fear he'll do anything to stay president. It will feel like death to him.

[PatSeg]

34. The people that I've known

who remind me of Trump, didn't have the money or power that he does. As such, the extent of their destruction was relatively limited, though they could make the lives of people close to them miserable.

Being I was from the Midwest, I wasn't as familiar with Trump as people on the East coast, so when I started to notice him, I was stunned and speechless. He would appear on television shows and say the most ridiculous things, with those oddly pursed lips like he was a fish. He seemed to get a lot of attention because he said bizarre things and also, I think because he was so unlikable. I am sure he thought people were fascinated with him, because he was supposedly "wealthy" and very successful. I was fascinated because he was very peculiar.

I noticed that whenever Trump wasn't getting any publicity, he'd say something outrageous and the media always accommodated him. They bear a lot of the blame for what has happened. Assholes saying stupid or hateful things are not newsworthy, but now he's president of the United States!

I don't know what he will do, but if he resigns, he will try to make himself look like a hero and trash a lot of people in the process. Whatever happens, we can hope that the media won't fall for another clown act like this one. But I'm not too optimistic about that.

[Juliusseizure]

43. He's likable to the audience he's with

Since his only core "value" is feeding his ego on a mass scale, he'll present whatever side pleases the audience he has.

On Howard Stern, he'll say he'd date his daughter if she wasn't his daughter. That audience loves that - not incest, but the anti-establishment nature of it from an perceived establishment member.

With evangelicals, he'll pretend to be in deep prayer and appear spiritual.

[PatSeg]

44. I can't believe people fall for it

He is a terrible actor, but I guess people see and hear what they to.

[progressoid]

13. "My administration will have only the best hurricanes!"

What an ass.

[PatSeg]

26. Not like that Obama

His natural disasters were so lame, what a loser.

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. none of us have had any rest for over 200 days. We are all beyond weary, dumpster

[BumRushDaShow]

9. "freeing up federal resources for disaster relief efforts."

there are NO MORE "federal resources for disaster relief efforts" left. Between the floods, mudslides, and wildfires on the west coast this past spring and summer, and Harvey, it's all been drained.

We are pretty much close to the "No money for you!" point. Jose is close to being declared a Hurricane and who knows where that will go. TS Katia appears that it will possibly move west into the Yucatan peninsula.

[IronLionZion]

11. Asshole has been trying to sell his St. Martin mansion for months

and no one wants to buy it from him. He cut the asking price several times.

Dude should go to Mar A Lago and see how it is first hand.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. It's about to be blown away

if it hasn't been already. The island took a direct hit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/world/americas/hurricane-irma-update.html?mcubz=1&_r=0

[IronLionZion]

15. He'll probably get insurance money for it

[BumRushDaShow]

17. He'd still have to sell it

and I expect that they wouldn't pay a fraction of what he would want to get for it given it's in a "risky" area.

[JI7]

22. If he could get rid of sanctions on russia

Someone would buy it

[BumRushDaShow]

23. Or buy what's left of it.

[Rollo]

30. Perfect for money laundering....

Something Cheetolini is an expert at, it seems...

.

[BumRushDaShow]

32. Bingo.

[raven mad]

16. Pardon me, but does that FUCKHEAD not sound like he's bragging?

YUUUUUUUGE hurricane. YUGE! Of course, it's all Fake News, and a plot by the Left...............

[dalton99a]

35. +1

[Luciferous]

37. Yes, he is obsessed with size.

[raven mad]

38. Then instead of ruining our nation,

why couldn't he, like most men worried about size, just go out and buy a fucking Hummer?

[Luciferous]

39. Ha, he must have a micropenis or something.

[AtheistCrusader]

18. largest, strongest, doesn't really matter to a person who thinks in terms of 'bigly'.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

19. So they've all gone to Florida?

What, and just left Texas wading through the muck?

Maybe if you weren't so lazy that you haven't bothered to finish filling out your administration, or so offensive that you hadnt't run off good people who might have served, your administration could handle more than one disaster at a time.

Just think what North Korea must be thinking about how vulnerable we appear right now.

[sprinkleeninow]

20. I exclaimed this last evening.

NK is watching, thinking, saying, "What a colossally inept 'leader' of the greatest nation of the 'free world'!"
Then proceeds to take advantage of the blundering.

I am so aggrieved and sick in spirit.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

24. Yes, does he take advantage of our current vulnerability

Or wait for it to get even worse?

[sprinkleeninow]

42. We're leaving ourselves wide open

for God only knows what.

The UN, China, and, oh wow, Russia should exert their influence on NK. The US., no thanx to the flounder in the Peoples' House, needs to be smart and calculating at this time. Shooting 'his' mouth off when the daily impulse arises is dangerous risky business.

I pray we are not witnessing the end of the age. Me and mine still got some livin' to do.

[BeyondGeography]

27. How comforting

[LakeArenal]

28. Like he has a clue...

He hasn't done a lick of hard labor in his whole life.. And neither have the spawn..

[Vinca]

29. Love the second tweet. Don's got to have the biggest (best) hurricane on his watch.

None of those stinkin' Cat 1 storms for Dear Leader.

[jmowreader]

31. "His team"?

Weren't these people all hired under the previous administration?

This would be like...oh, naming Bobby Knight the head coach of whatever basketball team LeBron James is on this week, the night before the fourth game of the NBA Finals when LeBron's team is up 3-0, then having Bobby Knight claim their winning the championship is all because of him.

[Solly Mack]

40. He would brag that a nuclear bomb explosion was the biggest ever.

No thought to the dead, the dying, and the terrified.

Simply brag as if the destruction caused was somehow a reflection of his greatness.

[nini]

41. He can't step away from the Reality Show mindset can he?

Everything is just something he is watching on TV and not real god damn tragedies. it's not 'REAL' to him.